Disney To Check Figures

DIGEST

April 15, 1989|Staff reports

HALLANDALE -- Mickey Mouse means business.

Next week Walt Disney Productions Inc. will send a representative to three day-care centers to investigate whether cartoon figures of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other Disney characters painted on the walls are in violation of the company`s copyright.

Disney`s vice president-counsel Peter Nolan said the company would send an investigator from its Orlando office to photograph Disney characters painted on the exterior walls of the Very Important Babies Daycare, Good Godmother Daycare and Temple Messianique to determine if the characters at the centers are identical to Disney`s original characters.

``If they are identical, the schools will have to remove the characters from their walls,`` Nolan said.